Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes won an Academy Award for his screenplay for this Robert Altman–directed whodunit from 2001. As a hunting party gathers at the country estate, no one is aware that before the weekend is over, someone will be murdered—twice. The authorities are baffled, but the all-seeing, all-hearing servants know that almost everyone (as is necessary for a proper English murder mystery) had a motive. The all-star cast also includes award-winning actors Alan Bates, Helen Mirren, and Emily Watson.

"Robert Altman's film Gosford Park is a melt-in-your-mouth hunk of 12-layer English spice cake that will appeal to anyone who feels a nostalgic pang for the long-running British television series Upstairs Downstairs, or for the cozy whodunits of Agatha Christie.... Anglophiles will gleefully wallow in the baronial splendor of the setting and in the movie's canny eye for period detail, including everything from dinner place settings to vintage cars to the rituals of the shoot. The performances, for the most part, are so pitch-perfect that you needn't pay close attention to the film's complicated plot to have fun."—NYTimes